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Old 03-25-2018, 12:28 PM
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The Model 1 was still popular post-Civil War, but by the early 1870s sales dropped off rapidly. An example is #124XXX, shipped in 1877. The first six years of sales topped the 100,000 mark, but in the next six years only 25,000 were sold. It took another 5 years to sell the remaining 6,000.

Again, these figures are only estimates, but the general trends based on documented examples lead to some fairly solid conclusions about this littl S&W's history.
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